OTTAWA, June 12 (Reuters) - Strength in oil and gas extraction and in mining helped push the Canadian industries’ capacity utilization rate up to 82.5 percent in the first quarter of 2014, the highest level since the second quarter of 2007, Statistics Canada said on Thursday.

It beat analysts’ expectations of 82.4 percent and was an increase from the 82.2 percent registered in the fourth quarter of 2013, itself revised up from 82.0 percent.

The manufacturing sector ran at 81.2 percent of capacity, down from 81.3 percent in the fourth quarter, which was originally reported at 80.7 percent. Chemical product and transportation equipment industries were largely responsible for the fall, the agency said. (Reporting by Randall Palmer; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)